McKEIGHAN, William Arthur, a Representative from Nebraska;
born in Millville, Cumberland County, N.J., January 19, 1842;
moved with his parents to Fulton County, Ill., in 1848;
attended the common schools;
during the Civil War enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, in September 1861;
at the close of the war located on a farm near Pontiac, Ill., and engaged in agricultural pursuits;
moved to Nebraska in 1880 and resumed agricultural pursuits near Red Cloud;
took an active interest in organizing the Farmers Alliance;
probate judge of Webster County 1885-1887;
unsuccessful candidate in 1888 for election to the Fifty-first Congress;
elected as a Populist to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1895);
unsuccessful candidate in 1894 for reelection to the Fifty-fourth Congress;
died in Hastings, Adams County, Nebr., December 15, 1895;
interment in Red Cloud Cemetery, Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebr.